This is something every fiction writer knows, or absolutely should know, but it’s worth watching to drive the idea home. Too often I get caught up in the plot, or the dialog between characters, and forget to give the reader the sense of physicality needed to suck them into the story.

NFL rules try to cover every contingency in every situation, but I thought of a situation where, under extraordinary circumstances, the rules would be self-conflicting. The rules for overtime games during the regular season were recently changed so that each team would get a chance to possess the ball, unless the team that gets the […]

I enjoyed Jurassic World quite a lot for the spectacle of it all, but the story was a little bit lacking. For one thing everything to do with the brothers was a waste of time, but that’s not what I want to talk about. What really caught my attention was the loyalty of the raptors. […]

Here are some cool fractals displayed on a sphere using polar coordinates. This first group of 4 images is of the same fractal pattern ( Mandelbrot 1 ), as the camera zooms in on the sphere. Click here to view the 3D presentation of this pattern. ( Note: at the bottom-left of the presentation are […]

This is all just silly fun but I think it helps illustrate just how amazingly huge we are compared to the building blocks from which we are made. Each of us is a massive collection of molecules working together to maintain a complex biological and chemical machine. There are so many pieces to this machine […]

I don’t know what it is but I just love the patterns, or lack of patterns, in a random walk. Especially when it’s done in 3D. It sort of reminds me of a complex protein molecule folding up on itself. At any rate it’s fun and easy to play around with and so I thought […]

I don’t know about you but I love the new Apache Flex logo. And when I saw it I couldn’t help but see that the shape was similar to a mathematical Rose. So of course I spent way, WAY, too much time futzing around with values until I could create a rough representation using Away3D […]

I think the biggest news for me personally for 2011 was that the RunPee app reverted back to my control. Briefly the story goes that I built the website back in 2008. Then in 2009 it became really popular and lots of people wanted an iPhone app. Since I had no way of making it […]

There’s no denying it. I’m just to damn lazy to be an HTML developer. This really sunk in when I looked at a tutorial for doing a jQuery Lightbox – for a client project. The tutorial was titled “Super Simple Lightbox with CSS and jQuery” but after reading it over I thought a better title […]

I was inspired by the Algorithmist’s TRON Clock so for funzies over the weekend I wanted to make my own using Away3D. I find that I learn the most when I’m just playing around with something like this and exploring different ways to code or design. Starting with the outermost ring – hand – you […]